Blunt’s Vietnam-era draft deferments become issue in 2016 Senate race

Sen. Roy Blunt’s claims about his Vietnam-era draft record emerged Wednesday as an issue in his re-election campaign against Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat.

In a news story posted online Wednesday morning, The Star reported Blunt received three draft deferments while a college student in the late 1960s. Blunt’s office did not disclose the deferments in 2015, when the newspaper specifically asked Blunt’s office about the senator’s draft history.

In a weekly telephone news conference with Missouri reporters later Wednesday, Blunt said he had not hidden the deferments. “Anytime anybody ever asked me about that, I would have said I had student deferments, and was then included in the first year of the lottery,” he said.


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